ISO 639
ISO 639 is a international standard, standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) concerned with representation of languages and language groups.
It currently consists of four sets (1-3, 5) of code, named after each part w ...
is a set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. The following is a complete list of three-letter codes defined in part two (
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-2:1998, ''Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code'', is the second part of the ISO 639 International standard, standard, which lists Language code, codes for the representation of the names of languages ...
) of the standard,
including the corresponding two-letter (
ISO 639-1
ISO 639-1:2002, ''Codes for the representation of names of languages—Part 1: Alpha-2 code'', is the first part of the ISO 639 series of international standards for language codes. Part 1 covers the registration of "set 1" two-letter codes. The ...
) codes where they exist.
Codes
Where two ISO 639-2 codes are given in the table, the one with the asterisk is the
bibliographic code (B code) and the other is the terminological code (T code).
Entries in the ''Scope'' column distinguish:
* individual language;
* collections of languages connected, for example
genetically or by region;
*
macrolanguage
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s.
The ''Type'' column distinguishes:
* Living (natural languages in current use);
*
Historical
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(distinct from their modern form);
*
Extinct
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in recent times;
*
Constructed.
for individual languages, and
* Generic;
* Generic-like;
* Geographic (for regional language groups).
for collectives, the diffences between Generic and Generic-like are vague, but usually previous one has collected more number of individual languages than later, and on the opposite, the later has member language families than previous.
The standard includes some codes for special situations:
*
mis, for "uncoded languages";
*
mul, for "multiple languages";
*
qaa–
qtz, a range reserved for local use;
*
und, for "undetermined";
*
zxx, for "no linguistic content; not applicable".
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Zande languages
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Zaza;
Dimili;
Dimli
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Kirdki;
Kirmanjki;
Zazaki , , Macrolanguage , , Living , , ; ; ; , , Zazan
*Synonyms for terminology applications (ISO 639-2/T) and for *bibliographic applications (ISO 639-2/B)
See also
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Lists of ISO 639 codes
ISO 639 is a set of standards by the International Organization for Standardization that is concerned with representation of names for languages and language groups. Lists of ISO 639 codes are:
* List of ISO 639-1 codes, with corresponding ISO 63 ...
Notes
References
External links
ISO 639-2:1998 - ISO.orgISO 639-2 Registration Authority - Library of Congress
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ISO 639-2 codes, List of